you can buy overpriced chips "in stock" at chinese market, chips pre-funded by bitcointalk community.
we have no chips, meanwhile chinese resellers have chips in stock with production date corelating with our orders.
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Yea, because it's impossible that those chips were ordered by a Chinese reseller whose interested in bitcoin and got there before the group buys did. Right? There's no way that could possibly happen, right?
Ben, If they were ordered by a chinese reseller, he WOULD NOT have shipped them out of the country (track the chips) just to REIMPORT back into china. It is hard to get stuff out of china but harder and more expensive to get stuff in. I think your theory is weak.
First, wasn't the import from TSMC in Taiwan? So wouldn't they have to import them to China anyway?
Second, not all chip purchases were represented in that photo.
Third, not all chip purchases were part of the public domain.
Fourth, I'm throwing out possible scenarios to point out that when all information is not known, jumping to conclusions can have disastrous consequences. My main thesis is to act on the information available, and not to speculate and come up with conspiracy theories.